Remixing material is legal and should not be copyrightable or monetized by a third party. Let's plays can be equated to mix tapes from a few decades ago.
On the one hand, at least they won't be taking down hour long podcasts for using clips from their trailers.
On the other hand, this is still stupid. A lot of the let's play community is cancerous, don't get me wrong, but at the same time, it's the sort of tumor you'd do more harm in trying to remove. Let's Plays can be a huge boon to a game, promoting titles to an audience that might not have cared otherwise. PewDiePie is... well, he's a lot of things, but I guarantee you games like Amnesia would not have sold as well as they did without his videos and other videos like them.
Wrong or right, as a company, you're much better off working with the Let's Players than trying to cut them out. There's plenty of games to choose from nowadays, and if you're not going to play ball, it's easy for them to take their "business" elsewhere.
The difference with Let's Plays is that they don't bother with the whole licensing thing. They just go out there and make money using somebody else's product without permission. Nintendo is protecting their intellectual property and have created a method to essentially mass-license through Youtube. Otherwise, the proper course of action for Let's Players, which apparently has been ignored to this point, is to individually come to terms with Nintendo or whatever company to license their product to make money off of.
I'm curious how people can actually believe such utter bullshit and still manage to be capable of living.
These arguments scream utter ignorance, or extreme Nintendo fanboyism. The fact of LPs is that they take little to no revenue from companies, and in most cases actually increase it. It's honestly the same as saying 100% of pirated copies of games = a lost sale.
It's free advertising. It's really as simple as that. There is nothing more to it.
Even that I agree 100% with the fact that gameplay videos help the game companies to sell more, and this should be enough "pay" for their franchises, I'm curious about how people like you with this kind of respect to others opinion still manage to be capable of living.I'm curious how people can actually believe such utter bullshit and still manage to be capable of living.
These arguments scream utter ignorance, or extreme Nintendo fanboyism. The fact of LPs is that they take little to no revenue from companies, and in most cases actually increase it. It's honestly the same as saying 100% of pirated copies of games = a lost sale.
It's free advertising. It's really as simple as that. There is nothing more to it.
last time i checked, if you upload a whole movie it would be get down for copyright infringement even if you record yourself joking around about it.In other words they're saying "you dedicate your time and effort to film and edit the videos and we'll take the money for your work, that's totally fair". Thanks, but no thanks - there are Youtube alternatives out there. A lot of LP'ers are already moving to Blip.tv, Polaris etc. - some are even opening their own websites. Hell, NormalBoots.com is back and that alone can give an LP fix. Here's a thought, Nintendo - Let's Plays are free advertising for you, appreciate them instead of trying to cash in on them because believe it or not, they're already beneficial to you.
last time i checked, if you upload a whole movie it would be get down for copyright infringement even if you record yourself joking around about it.
then what is the difference if you upload a whole videogame? oh yeah we are blaming nintendo right now thats the difference
You missed the part where you can't play a YouTube video so you're not actually sharing the whole game. By the way, reviews and riffs of movies are entirely permitted under fair use, one falls in the review category, the other is a parody. Check out the Cinema Snob and Spoony. GG, try again next time.last time i checked, if you upload a whole movie it would be get down for copyright infringement even if you record yourself joking around about it.
then what is the difference if you upload a whole videogame? oh yeah we are blaming nintendo right now thats the difference
checked both, they dont upload full movies. GG try again next timeYou missed the part where you can't play a YouTube video so you're not actually sharing the whole game. By the way, reviews and riffs of movies are entirely permitted under fair use, one falls in the review category, the other is a parody. Check out the Cinema Snob and Spoony. GG, try again next time.
The way I see it, Let's Plays are the equivalent of Mystery Science Theater 3000. They played a movie and talked over it with their witty banter. They had to either acquire the license for the films or had to use movies that had lapsed copyrights. Nowadays you have the spiritual successor, RiffTrax, which instead of licensing movies, just makes an audio track that will sync up with the movie. The movie creators still get their cut, though, from the viewer needing to purchase the moving to play alongside the RiffTrax.
The difference with Let's Plays is that they don't bother with the whole licensing thing. They just go out there and make money using somebody else's product without permission. Nintendo is protecting their intellectual property and have created a method to essentially mass-license through Youtube. Otherwise, the proper course of action for Let's Players, which apparently has been ignored to this point, is to individually come to terms with Nintendo or whatever company to license their product to make money off of.
the copyright law goes for music, games, movies and any copyrighted material. The goal of the product (to play, to watch, to listen, to read) do not matter, using any part of it without authorization violates the law. That's not a matter of opinion, if you use a game to make a video is the same of pirate the hole game in most countries (if not in all of them) to the eyes of the law (not for my eyes, but who cares about me )You missed the part where you can't play a YouTube video so you're not actually sharing the whole game. By the way, reviews and riffs of movies are entirely permitted under fair use, one falls in the review category, the other is a parody. Check out the Cinema Snob and Spoony. GG, try again next time.
Removing scenes in which nothing happens is the equivalent of cutting loading screens from a Let's Play, but I do see your point - some games are just not good LP material. Still, I believe that loads of people buy games they've watched online, I definitely do and I think it promotes the product very well. I suppose the truth is somewhere in the middle ground, as it's often the case.checked both, they dont upload full movies. GG try again next time
also fast already gave an example of a series that you wont need to play after wathcing a LP: Ace Attorney.
pretty sure most of the adventure games ala monkey island are part of those games you wont need to play after watching an LP.
add to that we are talking mainly LP videos and not reviews and riffs.
I'd rather pay for a good service than use a shit one for free.Yeah, the first thing they should do is make you pay to play online.
because I'm some nintendog